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Hi folks,
today october 15th, 2008, is Blog Action Day and a few months ago, I decided to register highresolutiontextures.com in order to make a small contribution to this great event. The initial idea was to create a huge texture pack and ask my readership to donate a small amount of money for it, which in turn would be used for one of the charity organizations featured at the Blog Action Day website.

However, due to the fact that the last 2 weeks have been totally hectic with renovations and moving, I had to make a change of plans. Therefore, I will donate all my earnings of the month october to Kiva.org and just like Jacob Cass of justcreativedesign.com, I will add 10 cents on top of that for every comment that you guys leave on this post.

Let’s see, what we can come up with. Every comment, which is made until the 31st of october, counts. Many thanks in advance for your support!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I will not be around for 1,5 weeks and therefore will not be able to post any new content. I bought a house together with my girlfriend and the next 2 weeks we will renovate our new home.

In the meantime, you can have a look at the newly installed Flickr pool, where the first members already posted some great images.

After the break, I will provide you with some kick-ass texture tutorials – promised!

From now on, you can now also follow highresolutiontextures.com on twitter. I found out yesterday that it is a brilliant networking tool. So, if you want to connect with me on twitter, here is the link to my profile.

Credit for the twitter icon on the left goes to wefunction.com.

One cannot have enough friends, whether it be online or offline. That is why I want to encourage you to get in contact with me through one of the following channels. It would be nice, if you could befriend me on one or more of these social media platforms, so we can share some quality content in the future. Feel free to leave your own profile details in the comments, if you want other readers to add you as a friend as well.

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On the 15th of october 2008, blog action day takes place. The goal of this event is to raise awareness of one special topic by getting as much bloggers as possible to write about this topic. This year’s topic is “Poverty” and already lots of high-ranked blogs like Techcrunch, Smashing Magazine or Mashable are participating.

In order to take part, there are several possibilities: one could write a blogpost related to the topic and thereby adding to the global discussion. Others can use their day’s earnings to microfinance a loan or give them to charity.

I think that this is a great initiative and over the last weekend, I thought about how highresolutiontextures.com can contribute to blog action day. My day’s earnings are almost 0 and as it is a blog, which focuses on photography, it does not make sense to write an article. Therefore, I came up with the idea that I could create a big texture pack, publish it on that day, and you – the audience – could donate whatever you think it is worth. Afterwards, I will forward all donations to one of the charity organizations mentioned on blogactionday.org.

What do you think of this idea? Or do you maybe have other ideas on how this blog can contribute to this event? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

It’s been almost 2 months now, that I am supplying my readership with all kinds of textures. Apart from Lawrence, who told me that he used one of the textures in one of his wedding photo books for a client, I have no clue what you guys are doing with all the images. However, I would love to see some samples of your work, so if you made something creative and would like to share it with the rest of the crowd, feel free to leave a comment with a link to your piece of work. It would be a shame to see all the textures getting buried on some hard drive! So don’t be shy and get some exposure for your design work!